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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future).

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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

I quickly felt at home and I started focusing on 3D editor and rendering contributions. release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. Moving forward, and with my full focus on Godot development, my goal is to work on Godot's 3D rendering and help bring Godot 4.0 Scene by NHodgesVFX. finish line. Red: depth buffer.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

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This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

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Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

It's been a month since the second progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. renderer works entirely in linear space (Gamma is no longer supported). Hoping that by the end of January, the new renderer will be mostly done! Introduction. Implement Decals.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Features of the new Godot 4.0 The lightmapper in Godot 3.2

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Upgrade Android gradle plugin to version 7.2.1 ( GH-68497 ). Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ).

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Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

It brings much-requested improvements to usability and many important features. now and keep on reading about the great features added in this version. While this article focuses mostly on the new features of the engine, it's worth mentioning that Godot's documentation has seen a lot of work from dozens of contributors.

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